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by Bill Batson Since the 1850s, only four families have called 122 South Franklin Street home. The first two families built and expanded what...
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by Sue Webb My sister Mary was my golden ticket to the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. She had gotten a job working...
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by Bill Batson Before we had a skatepark, Nyack was home to one of the first skateboard teams in New York, The Wizards. “Virgin...
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by Janey Tannenbaum We drove around the block six times trying to decide. On the seventh run we were stopped by police, who thought...
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by Bill Batson Joy Macy can tell the love birds, because they show up early. The worm they seek is the brightest bouquet of flowers...
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by Ronnie de Pascal I loved those white hot summer Sundays in the city. Ripples of heat rising from sidewalks and asphalt streets. The...
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by Bill Batson While former President Barack Obama was in South Africa last week to honor what would have been the 100th birthday of...
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by Barrie Peterson It lay there like an unexploded hand grenade; one of the faded sheets of family history my mother had passed on:...
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by Bill Batson Art lovers travel to Nyack from around the world to experience the childhood home of the preeminent realist painter, Edward Hopper....
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by Jennifer Attebery An unexpected letter arrived in the mail to an address on Martha’s Vineyard. Cynthia Riggs, a 13th generation Vinyarder and accomplished...